Tag: Alasdair Blain

Every cloud… Unfortunately, injury has meant member Alasdair Blain has been away from the club for the past few months. But rather than mope around and disengage from running completely (which tend’s to be my way of recovery – DD), Alasdair has kept busy by developing a software program recording and analysing every result …

Feeling under the weather and got the running blues? Hopefully Catherine Eaton‘s race report from the Yorkshire Marathon will put a step back into your running. Yorkshire Marathon race report: Sunday, 12th October 2014 This race was a long time coming for me, it was my comeback race. It sounds a bit crazy …

Chris Chase reports from the splendour of the Northumberland countryside. Haltwhistle Half-Marathon: Sunday, 28th September 2014 Why run the Haltwhistle half marathon? A good question to answer for a race report I reckon and also what I was asking myself when I woke up bright and early Sunday morning. I didn’t get a …

It gives me great pleasure to announce Alasdair Blain as the winner of the 2014 TBH Cup The TBH Cup is a series of eight races, with competitors best six results counting towards their final score. Alasdair competed in seven of the eight events and rock-solid steady performances in all his races was …

At the half-way point of this year’s TBH Cup, a battle is developing at the top of the leaderboard between several Group 3 members. Leading the way is Alasdair Blain on 530 points, with Phil Scott, James Knox and Edwin Wong in close attendance. First lady in the competition, lying in 5th place overall, is Sophie …

Making ‘short’ work of this year’s Raby Castle 10k (Sunday, 18th May 2014), Alasdair Blain writes this report. When you mention the Raby Castle 10k to anyone who has done it before, the first thing they often mention is ‘that hill’, shortly followed by ‘and you have to do it twice!’. Once they are …

Sand Dancer 10k Race Report: Sunday, 13th April 2014 by Alasdair Blain Whilst most eyes were rightly on TBH exploits at the London Marathon on Sunday morning, a few of us decided to get our running fix at South Shields Harriers Sand Dancer 10K. A multi terrain race, mainly on trail and grass, it provided a …

Alasdair Blain reports from a hazy Hartlepool marina. The Hartlepool Marina 5 Mile race wouldn’t have been high on many peoples race list, but both Jon Moss and I saw it as an ideal opportunity to take a good chunk of time out of our PBs from last year’s TBH Bridges 5. I …